I heard about The Harper and the Minstrel a few days ago on the Fae Nation newsfeed. Seems they play at the Southern California Ren Faire (among other places), although I never get down there. I was pretty impressed with the faery/elven themes in a lot of their music, and I like the sound of most of the samples (although their rendition of "King of the Fairies" is pretty sedate -- I prefer the live Tears for Beers cut that I have an mp3 of), so last night I bought "I Pray Thee Save the Trees... The Lament of the Last Elf" and "The Circle of Fae". Just passing on the recommendation as I think this might be the sort of thing some of you would like, too.